This is why I HATE food stamps!!!!!

Same shopping trip to walmart today and the cashier said as im ring up "Organic?!? Such a hippie thing. Oh, you're paying with food stamps??? We dont work to pay for your over priced food young lady!!" AND the person in line behind me agreed, and very loudly!!!! I was so shocked and dumb founded I couldn't even respond! Just took my stuff and left!!

I'm going to get flamed for this probably but I've always thought food stamps should be regulated much like WIC is. There should be approved items that can be purchased with those funds. I probably think this way because in my city its a heavily abused program. But some of you have to look at it from another perspective as well. There are people who bust their ass working and don't qualify for GA who can't afford to purchase organic as much as they would like to. So to someone on ththat side it seems wasteful to buy a $5 box of organic cereal when you could get two boxes of non organic store brand similar cereal

i may be wrong but FS is for low income people that need a little extra assistance and groceries is somewhere that the goverenment? state? can help. idk anything about who provides the assistance. i just think since ppl dont tell me i cant buy chips and cookies and candy with my debit card, i'm not going to tell ppl they cant just bc they have an EBT card. WIC is a nutritional program, so i understand why that has regulated and approved items for purchase. but i dont have FS so i'm not going to judge or comment on others purchases. that woman should lose her job. i'm sure professionalism is part of her job requirement and that was by no means professional. i've been a cashier before and i was always very discreet when customers were using EBT. i'm so sorry you were humiliated. i'm very bitchy when offended so they both would have had a piece of my mind for feeling entitled and judgmental.

I agree, I wish FS were regulated like WIC as well....People should not be allowed to buy soda and candy on it....What I don't understand is you can buy candy but not toilet paper?

I wish healthy food was cheaper, and I totally understand where you're coming from Courtney....OP they should have NOT done that to you, it's not right, good for you for purchasing real food for your family, BUT it does make me frustrated that people that are on food stamps are able to "buy" healthy organic food where is I can't really afford much of all that....I don't want you to not be able to buy it with your FS, but it just sucks that I can't afford much of it and I'm not on FS, I don't qualify for help....

It's sort of like healthcare...people that are on medical basically get a free ride with their health care, my friend was on it when she was pregnant, didn't have to pay a dime, she didn't work....I work, I don't qualify and I had to pay 5,000 plus for my birth....

It's almost like getting punished for working hard...

I don't know any of anyone's situations, and I LOVE public assitance, I think that even if 10 people abuse it, if it helps 1 person thats fabulous...I just wish that healthy food was more readily available to everyone....

I would be totally irate also. I have worked in the past for a large retail chain for several years and I know that cashiers are not allowed to comment on what you are paying with or what you are buying. I have even seen a cashier get wrote up for asking someone with WIC if they could go to another open cashier because they were new and did not know how to ring it up. You are never allowed to put the customer on the spot or single them out because of SNAP (foodstamps) or WIC.